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Tough opinion piece on cnn.com about two girls allegedly trafficked for sex through craigslist. do you think your letter and the reporting on this and the pressure from the attorneys general really led to this? and tell me about that letter. i hope so. this was a letter written by two young women who were survivors of domestic trafficking. one was a child when she was trafficked for sex through craigslist. the other was an adult woman. and both of them had endured being injured, exploited, subject to violence because they were sold for sex through craigslist. and now that they re on the other side of it, they pleaded with craig newmark to stop selling children and girls and women for sex through his website. and i think there s something very powerful about their courage to speak to their own pain and their own injury and ....
So, are these changes that have happened this weekend on craigslist enough to satisfy critics? we will ask one who recently said, quote, craigslist has made selling children a virtual stop and shop for predators. watch for that coming up at the half hour. speaking of our troops there is news out of afghanistan this weekend, president hamid karzai has taken another step that may well infuriate some military veterans and their families announcing he will establish a peace council to promote reconciliation with the taliban after more than nine years of fighting them. he has made similar proposals before but this is his most concrete step in that direction. the idea of luring lower level taliban fighters into a peaceful alliance shows some promise, somewhat like the awakening movement in iraq. what s not so clear is how or if such a program would work in afghanistan. so, when we come back i knew i didn t steal ....
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To be used for pimping and trafficking of our most vulnerable children. so i do commend him in that but i ask him to go further and make sure that the value of a life of a child in india or anywhere where craigslist exists internationally that the value of that child is as important as the value of a child here in the u.s. who is being subject to sexual exploitation. all right, malika, thank you for talking about all of this. we want to remind our viewers out there. we ve reached out to craigslist. we will continue to do so. we would like to hear them explain what has happened, what s going on. we hope they will explain it to you, all of our viewers, in the very near future. one of the best things you can do if you want to deal with this on a personal level in your own home is understand what s going on online. jumping on the social media bandwagon whether or not you want to. it can be done. take a look. ....
Newmark to stop selling girl and children through his website. and i think there s something very powerful about their courage to speak to their own team and their own injury and ask him to take the moral decision, the correct decision in shutting down the site. you mentioned craig new mark. i want to play a piece of amber lyon an lyon s interview with him. reporter: you say you screen manually. i don t know what this is. have you reported this to us? reporter: why do i have the responsibility to report this to you when it s your website? you are the one posting this online. do you take this move by craigslist to be an admission of responsibility in this? i do. i absolutely see it as his admission thats had site was ....